Essay Topics
1.
What do you consider Ken Bain’s most important finding in What the Best College Teachers Do? How can this finding inform and improve college teaching?
2.
Are there any flaws in Bain’s research methods and thus his arguments? How can these flaws be rectified with more recent methods (i.e., technology, etc.)?
3.
According to Bain, what is problematic about teachers’ transfer of knowledge? How can this method be improved?
